ALBANY TROY – Page 2 – Walter Simmons

COOMAN: NEW DAWN (Song Cycles and Piano Music).

wswebmaster on November 26, 2018

COOMAN NEW DAWN (Song Cycles and Piano Music) • Amanda Forsythe (sop); Jeffrey Grossman (pn) • ALBANY TROY1053 (72:33)Gold into Diamonds. Seven Haiku. Lingering, Lonely Callings. New Dawn. Chorale Preludes. Bell Mosaic. Oakdale Sketchbook. Aria: Yet Brighter Light. Rainshower. Kahlenberg. Winter Sonatina. Mountain …

ZYMAN: Cycles. MASLANKA: Symphony No. 7. HALPER: Flute Concerto

wswebmaster on November 26, 2018

ZYMAN Cycles. MASLANKA Symphony No. 7. HALPER Flute Concerto1 • Stephen K. Steele, cond; Illinois State University Wind Symphony; Kimberly McCoul Risinger (fl) • ALBANY TROY821 (71:24) I was initially drawn to this recent release by the presence of a …

WOLFGANG: Common Ground: Groove-Oriented Chamber Music (Metamorphoses. Common Ground. Jazz & Cocktails. Dual Identity. Thin Air. Night Shift)

wswebmaster on November 26, 2018

WOLFGANG: Common Ground: Groove-Oriented Chamber Music • ALBANY TROY854 (59:42)Metamorphoses. Common Ground. Jazz & Cocktails. Dual Identity. Thin Air. Night Shift Gernot Wolfgang, now in his early 50s, was born in Austria; he received his musical training there and in the United …

FLAGELLO: Piano Sonata; Violin Sonata; Declamation for Violin and Piano; Nocturne for Violin and Piano; Prelude, Ostinato, and Fugue; Suite for Harp and String Trio

wswebmaster on November 25, 2018

Flagello: Piano Sonata; Violin Sonata; Declamation for Violin and Piano; Nocturne for Violin and Piano; Prelude, Ostinato, and Fugue; Suite for Harp and String Trio (Setsuko Nagata, violin; Peter Vinograde, piano). Albany TROY-234 Nicolas Flagello was one of the 20th century’s …

PASATIERI: Frau Margot

wswebmaster on November 25, 2018

PASATIERI Frau Margot • Lauren Flanigan (Frau Margot); Morgan Smith (Ted Steinert); Patricia Risley (Kara Sondstrom); et al. soloists; Joseph Illick, cond; Fort Worth Opera Orchestra • ALBANY TROY 965/966 (2 CDs; 1:59) Albany Records continues its commitment to the music of …

PASATIERI: Songbook

wswebmaster on November 25, 2018

PASATIERI Songbook • Sheri Greenawald, Karen Slack (sop); Victoria Livengood (mez); Jordan Shanahan (bar); Warren Jones (pn) • ALBANY TROY-901 (63:11 •) A Rustling of Angels. Three Poems of Oscar Wilde. Three Poems of James Agee. Dream Land. Overweight, Overwrought, Over You. Ophelia’s Lament. …

PASATIERI: Signor Deluso.La Divina. Divas of a Certain Age

wswebmaster on November 25, 2018

PASATIERI Signor Deluso.La Divina. Divas of a Certain Age • Sheri Greenawald (Mme. Altina, Diva I); Ashley Putnam (Cecily, Diva II); Alissa Rose (Célie); Luke Grooms (Léon); Jordan Shanahan (Signor Deluso); Leslie Anne Friend (Clara); Opera Company of Brooklyn; Jay D. Meetze, cond; Thomas …

HOIBY A Month in the Country

wswebmaster on November 25, 2018

HOIBY A Month in the Country • Steven Osgood (cond); JennyRebecca Winans (Natalia Petrovna); Charles Temkey (Rakitin); Liam Bonner (Belaev); Yooson Park (Vera); Alex Boyer (Arkady); Manhattan School of Music Opera Theater • ALBANY TROY-747/748 (2 CDs: 120:52) In the informative and …

HOIBY Dark Rosaleen. WILLIS Variants. BOLCOM Piano Quartet

wswebmaster on November 25, 2018

HOIBY Dark Rosaleen. WILLIS Variants. BOLCOM Piano Quartet Ames Piano Quartet – ALBANY TROY-730 (58:57) Having just turned 80 this year, Lee Hoiby is one of our oldest living traditionalist composers—and one of our finest, still composing quite actively, in his unrepentantly tonal …

Picks of the Year: 2005

wswebmaster on November 24, 2018

As far as I can recall, this is the first year that I actually had difficulty narrowing down my list of most significant new releases to five. I’m not sure how to explain it, but I am certainly glad that …